Max Communicator 9 – Energy Management System

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PRESENTATION

Max Communicator 9 A solution for enterprise energy management

• Metering and regulating the progress of energy consumption (electricity, gas, water, heat, …)

• Calculating costs of operation, production and reserved capacity

• Monitoring the operation of means of production and effectivity assessment

• Optional manual operation management

• Network quality control

• Complete data archive

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System structure

PC Clients

Database

server

Central

Control Unit

kWh kWh m3 m3 GJ

Controlled

machines

Measurement of energy

consumption

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System structure description:

Meters

• Any energy consumption meter as – electricity meter, gasometer, hydrometer, heat meter,

etc., with so-called “impulse output”, e.g. electricity meters: EME-103, EME-203 and EME-303

• Metering other quantities: temperature, humidity, pressure, flow, surface, voltage, current,

etc., through the converter PRx2P or temperature and humidity sensors THPC-11

• Connection with a central control unit (e.g. ATS-C120) using a cable (up to hundreds of meters)

or a LAN data network (transmitter ECT-16-ET)

Central control unit

• Serves for autonomous meterings and all-system management

• Automatic operation independent on a user or a superior software

• Backed-up memory, automatic recovery of operation after a power outage

• Types of control units:

o ATS-C120 (120 metering inputs, 32 regulating outputs)

o ATS-micro (4 metering inputs, 4 regulating outputs)

o MM-116 (16 metering inputs, 1 regulating output)

Server

• Serves for a communication with control units – the number of control units in a system is

not limited

• Provides automatic downloading and saving of measured data

• The server is divided into:

o A powerful MAXCOMM server (requires OS MS Windows)

o A database MySQL server (besides Windows supports Linux as well)

• The number of connected users (clients) is not limited

• A server can also be omitted and it’s possible to run a software with an embedded server

(one-user mode)

Software

• A visual part of the control software – so-called client part of the software

• Each user of the system has his/her “own” client installed on his/her computer (a terminal

server can be used as well)

• The number of client installations is not limited in a software nor licensing way

• The license is of the OEM type – bound to the central control unit

• No additional after-purchase fees for running the system

• Automatic updates (can be switched off)

• Remote technical support (through Team Viewer)

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Software description

A complete description and manuals for running and installing the application Max Communicator 9

can be found on the maker’s website: http://www.pk-elsys.cz/105-max-communicator-9.

Characteristics

• A Windows app (from XP to the last version)

• Server-client operation mode or an operation with an embedded server and database

• Data from the central control unit (the progress of metering and regulation) are downloaded

in batches – it’s not necessary to maintain a permanent connection between SW and HW – the

control unit has a months-long memory capacity

• Data are saved to a MySQL-type database and it’s possible to share/export them with

another apps

• The software can be run in Czech / English / Serbian or it’s possible to add another

translation

• Three-level user authorization – admin / operator / user

• Warning reports – visual, sound, e-mail, SMS, history

• Management of up to hundreds control units and thousands of meterings

• Visualization of the current state of energy consumption, adherence to the reserved capacity

and network quality (power factor, voltage, outages)

• Print reports of metered and saved data, exports, Excel, …

• Cost calculation, comparing consumptions for previous periods of with other plants

• History of regulating interventions, regulating progress

• User-defined technological panels with current power values

• User-defined desktop with all required information

• Automatic data back-up to an external or network disk

• Retroactive corrections and data re-calculations

• Data back-up / recovery

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Management of more business premises

• Hierarchical layout

• Quick overview of the state of metering and connections

• Import/Export of individual projects

• Setting metering and regulating parameters (e.g. reserved capacity)

Diagnostics history

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Current state of metering and regulating

• A list of all meters and their current instantaneous power (energetic flow)

• A panel of the main (handover) metering with data about keeping/exceeding the reserved

capacity and import quality (power factor)

• Current regulating curve versus reserved capacity

• The state of regulating outputs incl. possibility to be switched on / switched off manually

• Bars on the right and on the left can be hidden, more data on the tabs:

o Regulating interventions (the progress of switching off regulating outputs)

o Metering progresses (the progresses of instantaneous power for selected meterings)

o Power factor (ratio of idle and active power)

o MaR panels (user-drawn technological scheme with current data)

o Regulating panel (displaying basic regulating data in capital letters)

o Voltage, current, … (displaying the current state of the network)

o VA history (displaying a history of the network state)

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The progress of instantaneous power for selected meterings

The progress of power factor

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Current network state (voltage, current, power)

Network state history (voltage, outages, current, max. curr…)

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MaR panels – user-defined schemes

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Daily progress of the electric energy import - main metering

• Visualization of saved data – measured values of the energy consumption progress

• Each report (print report) of data has two parts – a table and a graph

• Control bar (buttons) is common

• A diagram (print report) of a handover metering is specific in that it includes data about

keeping the reserved capacity and idle import / export

• The bottom row includes overall data for all day, month, year – according to the diagram type

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Yearly print report – main (handover) metering

• Includes also a cost calculation incl. additional charges according to the assigned pricelist

• The buttons “Previous” a “Next” will load the data of an adjacent period or use the calendar

Monthly print report of a subsidiary metering

• View can be changed to 2D/3D, the menu bar and legend can be hidden

• Under the “green arrow” button there is another setting hidden – adding import limits

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Reading of a meter in a free interval FROM-TO

Progress of a spatial temperature metering

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Yearly diagram of natural gas consumption

• Evaluation according to a gas day from 6:00 AM to 5:59 AM the following day

Yearly user report for more meterings

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Calculating monthly costs of a handover metering

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Pricelist definitions

User-compiled desktop

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